The role of negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal surveillance swabs in predicting the need for empiric vancomycin therapy in intensive care unit …

D Chotiprasitsakul, PD Tamma, A Gadala… - infection control & …, 2018 - cambridge.org
OBJECTIVES The role of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal
surveillance swabs (nasal swabs) in guiding decisions about prescribing vancomycin is …

Active identification of patients who are methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonized is not associated with longer duration of vancomycin therapy

C Acuna-Villaorduna, W Branch-Elliman… - American Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Background Excessive prescribing of vancomycin among patients admitted to inpatient
wards is a challenge for antimicrobial stewardship programs, especially in the setting of …

Effect of rapid methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus nasal polymerase chain reaction screening on vancomycin use in the intensive care unit

C Diep, L Meng, S Pourali, MM Hitchcock… - American Journal of …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Purpose To determine the impact of a pharmacist-driven methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal polymerase chain reaction (PCR) screen on …

Association between a rapid diagnostic test to detect methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus pneumonia and decreased vancomycin use in a medical intensive …

CI Pickens, C Qi, M Postelnick, J Paonessa… - Infection Control & …, 2021 - cambridge.org
Vancomycin overuse is common, yet few data are available regarding how to improve
stewardship of this antibiotic. We identify an association between use of a PCR assay to rule …

[HTML][HTML] Impact of a pharmacist-driven methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus polymerase chain reaction nasal swab protocol on the de-escalation of empiric …

P Dadzie, T Dietrich, J Ashurst - Cureus, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Objective To evaluate the impact of a pharmacist-driven MRSA PCR nasal swab protocol on
the de-escalation of empiric vancomycin in patients with pneumonia in a rural healthcare …

[HTML][HTML] Pharmacist-driven MRSA nasal PCR screening and the duration of empirical vancomycin therapy for suspected MRSA respiratory tract infections

NL Woolever, RJ Schomberg, S Cai… - … : Innovations, Quality & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Objective To assess the effect of a pharmacist-driven, polymerase chain reaction (PCR)−
based nasal screening protocol for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on …

[HTML][HTML] Evaluation of a pharmacy-driven methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance protocol in pneumonia

S Dunaway, KW Orwig, ZQ Arbogast, ZL Myers… - International journal of …, 2018 - Springer
Abstract Background Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is an important
cause of pneumonia and clinicians must determine when empiric antimicrobial therapy …

[HTML][HTML] Nasal-swab results for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and associated infections

J Rioux, J Edwards, L Bresee, A Abu-Ulba… - The Canadian journal …, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Background Nasal-swab screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
has a quicker turnaround time than other bacterial culture methods, with results available …

Impact of a pharmacist-driven methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surveillance protocol

C Willis, B Allen, C Tucker, K Rottman… - American Journal of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Purpose Results of a study to evaluate the impact of a pharmacist-driven methicillin-resistant
Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) surveillance screening protocol are reported. Methods A …

Clinical utility of negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal surveillance swabs in skin and skin structure infections

R Burgoon, E Weeda, KN Mediwala… - American Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Negative methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal
swabs have a high negative predictive value of approximately 99% in respiratory infections …